Final Immersion Team Paper
LTA: The Benefits of Linguistic Immersion
ENG/380
Instructor Nazarian
November 24, 2014
University of Phoenix
LTA: The Benefits of Linguistic Immersion Immersion is an extremely beneficial technique in order to encourage the understanding of multiple languages. While Immersion is important in the acquisition of a foreign language, the linguistic study of Immersion can hold challenges such as: “Pressing challenges include staffing, curriculum development and program articulation,” (W. Fortune, 2014). However, the study and implementation of Immersion is valuable. Immersion into another culture and its language allows an individual to completely engulf their self in another culture, gaining new linguistic insight and knowledge; studies support cultural growth through immersion, the benefits are able to be seen in certain areas of life: education, work, family, and personal development.
Having linguistic knowledge is important in one’s personal development, family life, education, and work place. To have this knowledge would provide people an understanding that human language, whether it is sign language or Spanish, is complex. In school, or in the educational field, it is essential for children to learn another language. It is now required for students to take at least one foreign language class in public high schools. Having linguistic knowledge in the educational setting is good because it means that students are given the opportunity to see how language works and why it is important. Students are able to see how the structure of languages is made, how it is acquired, and so on. This helps students better communicate with others who may have been having a hard time understanding new languages.
Studies have been done throughout the years using Spanish speaking children and placing them in English speaking classrooms. Most of the instruction that these Spanish speaking children are given throughout the day is in English. The English speaking children
ENG/380
Instructor Nazarian
November 24, 2014
University of Phoenix
LTA: The Benefits of Linguistic Immersion Immersion is an extremely beneficial technique in order to encourage the understanding of multiple languages. While Immersion is important in the acquisition of a foreign language, the linguistic study of Immersion can hold challenges such as: “Pressing challenges include staffing, curriculum development and program articulation,” (W. Fortune, 2014). However, the study and implementation of Immersion is valuable. Immersion into another culture and its language allows an individual to completely engulf their self in another culture, gaining new linguistic insight and knowledge; studies support cultural growth through immersion, the benefits are able to be seen in certain areas of life: education, work, family, and personal development.
Having linguistic knowledge is important in one’s personal development, family life, education, and work place. To have this knowledge would provide people an understanding that human language, whether it is sign language or Spanish, is complex. In school, or in the educational field, it is essential for children to learn another language. It is now required for students to take at least one foreign language class in public high schools. Having linguistic knowledge in the educational setting is good because it means that students are given the opportunity to see how language works and why it is important. Students are able to see how the structure of languages is made, how it is acquired, and so on. This helps students better communicate with others who may have been having a hard time understanding new languages.
Studies have been done throughout the years using Spanish speaking children and placing them in English speaking classrooms. Most of the instruction that these Spanish speaking children are given throughout the day is in English. The English speaking children